Mount Everest. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay scaled the heights of Mount Everest in 1953. Stayed a few moments on the pinnacle, and descended. Physical conquest achieved. Majesty of the mountain was undiscovered. Our physical conquest of Greatness cannot last eternally; moments later descension commences. We cannot discover immensity with physical attributes. Next to immenseness, everything is a speck of dust. In 1953, Hillary and Norgay’s achievement would have made sensational news all across the globe. It is, mostly, forgotten now. Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon. Great achievement for an individual, and the entire team that prepared and executed the mission. Achievement for humanity through these physical conquests is nil. Individuals reaching the apex of Greatness are a few moments of joy, but possess zero value for humanity. Individual achievements are ephemeral; human achievements are eternal.
Qualitative discovery of Greatness serves humanity eternally. Individual existence is not essential for humanity. Existence of humanity is essential for individuals. We come and go. Some endeavor for betterment, many endeavor for survival, and vast populations struggle to exist. A governing principle in nature. Generation after generation this phenomenon continues unabated. Our existence is not in our control is, manifestly, clear. An individual choosing struggle is unimaginable, and illogical.
Humanity can scale the peaks of mountains taller than Everest, and remain, firmly, perched atop for as long as we live is attainable. It is not a lonely place, either. Every individual, and every generation reaching the peaks of existence is feasible when our pursuit shifts from physical to qualitative conquest.
Physical subjugation of Greatness is, extremely, limited in scope due to the fact that our physical presence is limited. We cannot be everywhere physically. Thus, what can be witnessed, bodily, is confined. Our mind is not confined by physical boundaries. Our mind is capable of oscillating between atomic and vast, with ease, when we possess qualitative attributes of our cosmos. Physical restrictions are for the body; the mind, a unique powerful tool for humanity, is unbounded.
A process, started eons back, produced, and continues to produce the wonderment of our Universe. The process remains unchanged. Logically, it has to remain unchanged. What would the ramifications on the objects be should the process change? An unknown. Do we live our lives with unknowns, or knowns? We exist, and everything around us exists with certitude. We may, or may not know about our job’s certitude, but we are doubtless about existential reality. It is unconditional. Wherever there is unconditional certitude, the process would have to exist as a known phenomenon. The process cannot exist as an unknown. Can we imagine our existence in an unknown, and alien environment? A ghostly abandoned building frightens us even though we are, intimately, familiar with the structural components of the abandoned edifice. Millions of species survive and thrive with unchallenged conviction. And so do humans.
The existential process for micro, or macro cosmos, our body, and everything around us must be identical. Whether atomic, galactic, insect, or human, sentient, or insentient, movable, or immovable, stars, or nebula, and everything in between obeys an identical process. Random processes are not evident, logically, anywhere in the vastness of our Universe. Physically objects exist in various shapes and forms, but qualitatively they are identical. Whether we see and conquer an immovable Mount Everest, or land on the surface of Mars, or send satellites across the vastness of space, the process remains the same. The process that brought us to existential reality is the same process that brought our Sun, our galaxy, and our cosmos.
Astrophysicists observe the death of stars through telescopes, and theorize cosmic phenomena with myriad complex rules for the witnessed process. Set aside the notion of a star dying, it is in a distant galaxy after all. What ramifications such observations should have in our solar backyard? We do not know, or understand. None of us mourn the death of a star. It is a massive object. When we can lament the tearing down of a human erected century old structure, remaining unperturbed with a star’s death must be inhumane! What about our own tiny star, the Sun? Will it die? If so, when? Should not those questions plague our minds, whether we are astrophysicists, or not? We are conditioned to physical phenomena. They exist and disappear. Wars, famine, drought, floods, avalanches, tsunamis, earthquakes, and so many other natural phenomena occur, but our lives remain unperturbed. As long as we survive, we can will our way to overcome calamitous events.
Cosmologists, and other scientists observe physical phenomena to understand our existential Universe. Physical world is very vast. It is impregnable. Where can we commence to understand the vastness? Understanding physical qualities beyond a threshold loses existential value for humanity. We know the physical properties of water as two atoms of hydrogen bonding with a single atom of oxygen. H2O. Why are we not using this formula to manufacture water? Surely, it can solve a persistent problem for humanity. Rain, or droughts, our water needs can be manufactured at will with the formula. Yet, we rely upon the antiquated rains for water. A riddle.
Every object we witness in the sky, or on the surface of our Earth, or in the deep layers, and the core of Earth, have to be made up of the same components. Every component in the atomic layers should also possess identical properties. If an object, and our physical body are distinct and separate, then how can our body grow with incompatible objects? Our body, and this Universe must be identical. Distinction cannot manifest in our Universe. Physical distinction exists, but qualitative distinction does not exist between humans, and everything else in the visible, and invisible realm. Distinctions exist within our physical body by observing that we cannot hold a hot object in our hands, but our mouth accepts hot food. Why? Fire element is trace in hands; our mouth is mostly fire. Our gut is fire. Our heart is fire. Our physical perception of fire is distinct from the qualitative manifestation.
Qualitative discovery of our Universe will lead our existence to a higher and higher platform. Distinction between micro, and macro cosmos is irrelevant. You, and the Universe are one and the same will be ushered when Post-Modern society emerges.
Thanks Rajni garu. I guess not being consistently objective is also one of our qualitative attributes?
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Hello Ram, I did not understand your question? What does consistently being objective mean in your mind?
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